2015-07-10 14:07
After what has proved to be an extremely busy year on business, and hence far away from these Northern trails, it was with extreme hope, probably above expectation, coupled with a certain am… Read More
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A middle aged mans take on ultramarathon trail running and outdoor running in general throughout the UK
2015-03-16 12:33
"Submarine warfare seen in World War One was responsible for one of the most important developments in British forestry!"Caught your attention? The first of the 2015 quartet of Challenge Eve… Read More
2014-07-17 19:13
“When you go in with a silent swish, you know it’s going to be deep …”This quote could only relate to the Lyke Wake Walk – the 42 mile trek along the North Yor… Read More
2014-07-10 16:16
... and 14 miles on a steaming hot July moorland Saturday afternoon; bagging two of the many ancient stone crosses on the North Yorkshire Tops along the way.Always remaining a goal of mine i… Read More
2014-05-25 18:56
Following hot on the heels of our first ever road marathon completion, rushing around the streets of Paris back on an early April Sunday morning, with hardly any opportunity to stop and take… Read More
2014-03-24 16:17
This is it ... the first ultra of the 2014 Runfurther Series: The 32 mile Wuthering Hike / Haworth Hobble, 4400 feet of climbing and clambering about in the Calderdale Pennines, and a cool w… Read More
2014-03-11 16:51
Spring has Sprung! ... Or it would do tomorrow morning however one of the final flings of winter saw us running out of Ravenscar, up eastwards into the teeth of such a breeze that slapped ou… Read More
2014-03-05 12:54
Atrial Fibrillation Association, Tuesday 14 January 2014, UK:Across the UK incidents of the serious heart condition, atrial fibrillation, have increased by just over 20% in the last five y… Read More
2013-09-27 13:48
"The Riviera ..., on every street a gay casino, where continentals sip their vino .... and leave their fortunes to chance &nb&hell…Read More
2013-09-27 09:58
"Ower t' tops' I know only one better kind of tramping: the quintessence of the art. For there are wilder moods, when ones` soul thirsts for the untrodden tops amid the whams and the hags an… Read More
2013-06-28 07:57
A very personal and private account of the 48th Annual Lyke Wake Race held on the 7th July 2012.“This ae nighte, this ae nighte, Every nighte and alle, Fire and fleet and candle-lighte… Read More
2013-06-15 05:32
Richard Elliott and I discussed last years event as we milled around in the field prior to the bell being rung for the off on this, another potentially cloudless, blue, Swaledale mornin… Read More
2013-04-16 07:46
The Woldsman - 50 miles of the rollercoaster which is the Chalky south face of the Yorkshire Wolds. An Out and back lane, track, field border and trail jaunt from Driffield, taking in Sledme… Read More
2013-04-04 12:39
I've noticed recently that a few members of the ultra community are putting big markers down in the sand. Was it ever so? Jezz Bragg has just run from the top to the bottom of New Zeala… Read More
2013-03-18 17:08
The first of the three annual challenge events hosted by the Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team to help towards the essential fund raising for this vital s… Read More
2013-03-12 19:01
Wuthering Hike (Haworth Hobble) – A Circuitous 32 miler of Pennine Tracks, Trails and Roads, out and back with 4400ft of ascent/ descent .. And, my fifth straight Wuthering Hike to boo… Read More
Into 2013 ..... "Quis Nostrud Exercitation Ullamco Laboris Nisi Ut Aliquip Ex Ea Commodo Consequat."
2013-02-21 16:00
After what IS a few months of racing inactivity, then this blog stutters into life - and well into 2013 at that.So, what have I been up to? Actually quite a lot of mileage for the coming yea… Read More
2012-11-20 11:58
... Or, the Heanor R.C. Matthew Walker 10K Pudding Race; Matthew Walker remaining the oldest Christmas Pudding maker in the world - based in Derbyshire since1899. The traditional recip… Read More
2012-11-12 10:07
Today, Saturday the 20th October, I had a run around Rotherham – taking part in the annual, and my second, Rowbothams Round Rotherham 50 mile race.http://www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku… Read More
2012-11-05 12:32
If the fog would have lifted on this unseasonably and surprisingly cold November Sunday morning then this would probably have qualified as one of the most scenic of road 10 milers in the Nor… Read More
2012-10-09 09:35
16 + miles of the Saltergate Circuit; the “short route” of this annual fund raising event.After a lengthy summer break from the trails following the annual Lyke Wake Race in earl… Read More
2012-06-19 15:54
How did I manage to record exactly the same time as last year - 4 hours 25 minutes - completing this cracking 24 miler around the eastern end of Swaledale taking in Reeth, Langthwa… Read More
2012-06-07 09:20
“40 odd miles of Yorkshire Wolds in around 8 hours, and, in this weather? You’re `avin a laff”And so it would prove, in many ways …Devised in 1994 by Ray Wallis, and… Read More
2012-05-07 20:55
“The Doncastrian Way is a 33 mile circular around the old County Borough boundary of Doncaster” … So says the original pamphlet from the early 1970's … “the R… Read More
2012-04-19 20:36
Following last weekends Easter Bleak Break Washout!, this weekends training route was bathed in glorious sunlight: An out and back, trail and track, hill gallop showing o… Read More
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